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According to a filing by Nabors, four directors received less than a majority of the shares voted (or withheld) and tendered their resignations, in accordance with the company’s majorit...
The week of June 15, 2015 saw two of the first publicly announced enforcement actions brought by the SEC and CFTC to enforce security-based swap and swap regulatory requirements under Tit...
SEC Rules and Regulations
BE-10 Report Filing Deadline for New Filers Extended to June 30, 2015
SEC Grants No-Action Relief from Section 12(d)(3) of the Investment Company Act, Allowing ...
On May 20, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed rules, forms and amendments under both the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment C...
The question of whether companies should be required to disclose how long they have retained the same auditors may be part of the concept release on audit committees that the SEC plans to...
Last week, the Delaware House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that amends the Delaware General Corporation law to prohibit stock corporations from inserting “fee-shifting?...
In November of 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) promulgated a rule that required a Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (“HSR Act”) filing when a transaction res...
Of the 63 companies that opposed proxy access shareholder proposals and have announced voting results, 36 proposals received more support than in opposition and 27 proposals did not obtai...
Twenty-one comment letters have been submitted about the SEC’s proposed rules on disclosure of hedging by employees, officers and directors, including ours linked here.
The Council of I...
The New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has published its final “BitLicense” rule for virtual currency businesses, as announced by outgoing NYDFS Superintendent Lawsky i...